After everyone returned to the base in Hoboken, it wasn't exactly back to work. Everyone needed to look into any finances that may be connected to Gray Mann, but instead, the Mann Co. mercenaries and Overwatch all just started goofing off. For starters, instead of doing their research, Morrison and Duncan told old war stories. Mei would sit and watch as Lucio, Scott, Tracer and Sarah race each other, with Tracer of course cheating every time. Genji would watch Burke as he would work with Angela, Burke still feeling the scorn from Genji. One day, Angela asked Burke if he could still feel it and he told her, "Oh ja, I can tell he wants to kill me…should I be concerned?"
"Oh absolutely." Mercy joked, but Burke was pretty damn nervous.
After Mishka damaged 's MEKA, Rick was hard at work trying to fix it with Winston and Jesse would just listen to Rick ramble on about his hometown, his high school years, and what he called the "Golden Years" in his time at Mann Co. back when he first started.
"YYYEEEEAAAAAA!" a screech echoed through the base. Everyone looked up at the sudden shriek and McCree joked, "Hana must have finally lost a game."
That was when the little Korean girl came storming into the garage and shouted, "What happened to my snacks and drinks?"
"Wha'cha mean?" Rick asked. Hana held up a bottle of water and a snack pack and growled, "Someone replaced my snacks with water and these…wooden…crusty…things!"
"They are called granola snacks." Mishka told as he walked up behind her. "Doctors inform Mishka that little girl falling behind in nutrition. Mishka see that little girl eat too much sugar and drink too much caffeine. I replaced snacks and drinks with granola and fruit snacks and bottles of water."
"What did you do with my old snacks?" Hana demanded, Mishka letting out a loud belch as a response. McCree and Rick chuckled, but Hana gave them a threatening glare. Mishka told Hana, "If it'll make you feel better, I fixed you something to eat." Hana curiously looked up at Mishka and he held out a salad. Instead of arguing with him, she just took it and started eating it.
The only person who was doing any research at all was Tom, but he wasn't looking for Gray. Instead, he was looking at the profiles of all the other Overwatch crew. He wanted to see who else was out there and what they could do. One name popped his interest, Lacroix. He clicked the name and profiles came up. One was Gerard, but his profile was blank save for only one word; deceased. The other one was Amelie with her nickname in parentheses, her nickname being Widowmaker.
According to her profile, she was Gerard's wife when she was abducted by Talon and was brainwashed by them. Overwatch rescued her, but she killed her husband in her sleep. She was believed to be dead, but it was revealed later that she was now a sniper working for Talon. Being a sniper himself, Tom's interest grew even more. He looked about her profile and came across video files. He watched as the video recorded Widowmaker's every move and every shot. It continued until she shot at the screen and the screen went static.
Tom thought about her movements, her swift agility and her skill. She clearly was swift on her feet, but he thought to her weapon. The rifle she carried could switch from sniper to rapid fire. Tom smirked and said, "Amateur."
After days of everyone just getting comfortable with each other, it was time to finally work. Between Winston, Scott and Sarah, hacking into private files was an easy task, but trying to get records for Mann wasn't. The two scouts were certain that Gray had some property for a factory to produce robots.
"I have yet to find anything linking Gray to any business transactions." Sarah said as her looked through her printouts. "No real-estate, no business correspondences, not even any deals by metal works to receive any form of material for his robots. It's like he's a ghost."
"Well as far as real-estate, there are islands out to sea that haven't been claimed by any countries that he could hide in." Scott said. He pulled up a number for the amount of islands that Gray could hide on, but it was close to five hundred. Sarah groaned and plopped down on a chair.
Mishka wanted to work on trying to get a combination between Burke and Mercy to see if it could still work. Between Burke's ubercharge and Mercy's power up, Mishka took out several of the training bots in record time. With the three of them was Genji, Mei, and and everyone had their chance and the teamwork between Burke and Mercy proved to be a powerful asset to the team. After everyone tested the power, it was time to call it a day.
As Mishka walked out of the gym, he felt some one jump on his back. He turned and saw Hana clinging to him. The two smiled at each other and he carried her out.
Short but I just wanted to have the group start to get comfortable with each other. We also see Tom's developed an interest in Widowmaker.
Also as a warning, starting next chapter, the story will go from rated T to rated M due to a very dark turn that will drive the teams to move faster in stopping Gray. I will say this, I'm gonna end up hurting my favorite OW characters...